Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
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Larsen Basin (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Larsen Basin (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Basin (6)
This name originates from . It is part of the GEBCO Sub-Committee on Undersea Feature Names (SCUFN) Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Proposer: Dr. H. Hinze, AWI, Germany, Jan. 1997. Accredited by: SCUFN (Jun. 1997). Name taken from the associated "Larsen Ice Shelf", which was named after Carl Anton Larsen (1860-1924) who established the first shore-based whaling station on South Georgia.
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